This morning while reading Robert Johnson’s Lying with the Heavenly Woman: Understanding and Integrating the Feminine Archetypes in Men’s Lives, for my dissertation, I chanced upon this passage:
Many men in our culture are permanently stuck in this contamination, and they are constantly fighting a mother. What a variety of forms there are! A man’s own mother only begins the long list. The poor waitress in the restaurant who elicits a man’s rage because she brought the wrong order, the woman office manager, the woman traffic officer, the Republican Party, and the mother in a thousand other disguises incur the wrath of the man who has not made this differentiation between the inner complex and the outer form.
Emphasis added.
It is interesting that he included the Republican Party on the individuals or institutions who elicit certain men’s rage. Must be that a lot of this psychologist’s clients vent against the GOP. (I’m sure that some extreme social conservatives with similar psychoses frequently mention “homosexuals”.)
It just all goes to my point about the psychological basis of such animosity. It’s not the object so much that they hate, but the demon they’re trying to exorcize.
This is probably root of all the Palin bashing as well.
That’s interesting; I wonder how he makes the connection (or his clients do). He’s a bit of a liberal, but George Lakoff argued the inverse when examining the rhetoric of the parties: that the GOP was more of a father figure and the Democrats more motherly, one offering tough love while the other tended towards coddling.
You can never paint all members of a group with one brush; it’s just sloppy thinking. That said, you don’t have to look too far for where the perception comes from:
His followup was even better.
And before you scream at me “it’s just one guy,” I’m more concerned with the lack of reaction from the party. After wishing AIDS babies on moms who have naughty sex, this guy’s leader in the legislature didn’t rein him in or even disagree. That’s the bigger problem.
Um, this is a state Senator. And yep, he’s a loon. And torrent, if you’d bother to read my posts, you’d know I’m not painting all members of a group with one brush.
And I would totally agree that this toon is projecting, just as are some of our critics when they jump in to insult us and those who defend us.
#4 – My follow-up question would be: who are the Dhimmicrats who are sponsoring this bill, and what is their rationale?
There is, after all, two sides to every issue.
Regards,
Peter H.
GPW: I didn’t say *you* were painting people with one brush; I was agreeing with you that you can’t paint everyone in the party as Mommy haters. I was on your side on this one. Guess you didn’t recognize it. 😉
And what earthly difference does his being a State senator make? He’s not really a Republican, then?
Torrent, thanks for the clarification. I was wondering if maybe I wasn’t clear in the post that I wasn’t referring to all Democrats.
Well, was just explaining why his loony remarks aren’t drawing much attention. I would agree with you that should he have a higher profile position, more people should address his nonsense. This is something perhaps best left to local bloggers in his jurisdiction.
How interesting that these mother-haters should lash out at the Republican party while they jealously defend and suckle at the tit of the “mommy party” Democrats.
I believe that’s what Freud referred to as “transference.”
Certainly supports the whole “mommy party” theory.
TP,
I just wrote an email to that Senator explaining the gross error he made, if that makes you feel better. There is nothing conservative about making the innocent suffer for the mistakes of the guilty. We believe in protecting the innocent whenever possible. Punishing the innocent for the mistakes of the guilty is what liberalism stands for.
It sounds like this rage is directed toward anyone who tells a selfish little brat “No, you have to delay your self-gratification.”
Which explains leftists pretty well.
After wishing AIDS babies on moms who have naughty sex, this guy’s leader in the legislature didn’t rein him in or even disagree. That’s the bigger problem.
I love watching the party that believes in abortion and leaving babies to die on hospital floors try to pretend they actually care about unborn children.
Meanwhile, let’s be honest; the Obama Party is still in denial that AIDS is spread primarily by promiscuous sex because that would mean they actually would have to confront the fact that they encourage and support it. Instead, they take children who are sickened by their irresponsibility and promiscuity hostage, ignoring the fact that these children would not be endangered if their mothers had exercised responsibility as they should have.